Hmmm… is it the same people who find c++ incomprehensible who also are
infatuated with command line build/text editor toolsets? Seems to me it
is, but I wonder what the correlation is.
Is microsoft developing a ‘driver framework’, and is it or is it not a
C++ driver class library? If they are, will the ‘you can’t use c++ in
the kernel’ folks just shut up already?
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Mark Roddy, bored with the tedious you can’t use c++ ‘debate’,
Consultant, Microsoft DDK MVP
Hollis Technology Solutions
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-----Original Message-----
From: “Peter Viscarola”
To: “NT Developers Interest List”
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 19:45:11 -0400
Subject: [ntdev] Re: C++ in kernel. was Re: Batch file for Visual Studio
build,
> “Andrew Sloven” wrote in message
> news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> >
> > It’s up to programmer to decide under which
> > circumstances to use certain language.
> >
>
> Or not. Can you write drivers for NT today in VB (even VB.NET)? Or in
> IA64
> assembler language?
>
> Well, you COULD do these things but the effort required makes them
> impractical, at the very least. So, at least at face value your
> statement
> isn’t valid.
>
> But aside from that: I just hope whoever winds up with a driver that
> you
> decided to write in C++ has the same capability at maintaining it,
> changing
> it, and re-working it that you would have.
>
> You see, it’s not really about YOU… it’s about everybody ELSE.
>
> When I write code, I realize that I’m likely not the last person to
> touch
> it. It’ll be tweaked, prodded, and poked by all sorts of engineers –
> who
> will range in talent from supremely competent to utter moron.
>
> So, just as I carefully choose what syntax to use to express a concept
> (to
> ensure utmost clarity for those who come after me), one must do
> likewise
> when choosing a language.
>
> Peter
> OSR
>
>
>
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